On 19 May, Hodder will publish Matthew Blakstad’s debut novel Sockpuppet, which you’re going to love. it’s Neal Stephenson meets The Thick ofIt, and it’s amazing.But Sockpuppet might not be quite the beginning of the story…
Today we’re thrilled to reveal the cover of Fallen Angel, the stand-alone, novella-length prequel to Sockpuppet. Modems, early internet hoaxes and Geocities… it’s all here.
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s Hexhas put a bit of abracadabra into the witchcraft canon. Although they’re prevalent in fairy tales, witches tend to take a back seat to vampires and ghosts when it comes to villainy in classic literature. There are some notable exceptions, however…
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Games are pretty cool, right? You get to be the hero or the villain, you get to run around and do amazing things that you probably can’t do in real life (I can barely get up to make myself a cup o’ tea let alone scale buildings) and you get to experien …

Brontë hipsters will claim that the actual best Brontë novel is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë. Contrarians like to argue that the best Charlotte Brontë novel is not the most famous, Jane Eyre, but instead Villette or even Shirley. And today – Charlotte Brontë’s two hundredth birthday, is not the day for us to argue. (Or maybe it is! But not here on Hodderscape!) Instead, today is all about celebrating Charlotte Brontë, one of the most superb novelists of the English language (and a Hodderscape favourite).
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This year marks 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. I like to think that if Shakespeare had been around today he’d have been first in line to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and be able to quote liberally from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This may be going a bit far, but Shakespeare’s plays are packed with fantastical elements. Witches, ghosts, fairies, people who wear a lot of black, his plays have them all.
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The Houses of Parliament. Buckingham Palace. Diagon Alley. London has so many iconic sites, some of them you can visit… some of them you can find in books. Here are our favourite fictional Londons.
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You may look in a comic shop, see the latest Game of Thrones graphic novel and say to yourself, ‘that can’t possibly be as good as the books’. When we talk about fantasy we have certain expectations like a complex plotline and a stack of pages to read through, so how can fantasy possibly work in picture-form?
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Guy Gavriel Kay tells us about the origins of his new novel Children of Earth and Sky, a sweeping fantasy epic inspired by Adriatic pirates, the city of Dubrovnik and the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe.MORE